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Lansing's 'singing cashier' Lucas Holliday made it through the first round of blind auditions on season 13 of NBC's "The Voice" Monday night.

Holliday performed Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work."

With only a few seconds of the audition remaining, former American Idol contestant Jennifer Hudson was the only coach to turn around.

Her jaw dropped when she turned around and saw Holliday for the first time.

"I definitely 100 percent don't look like how I sound," Holliday said on the show ahead of his audition. "I'm a surprise. They don't see me coming."

"No offense, because you're brilliant, but you're like the whitest dude ever," joked Maroon 5's frontman Adam Levine, another one of the coaches.

A video of Holliday singing Maxwell's R&B hit, "Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)" from behind a cash register at the Dollar General went viral last November. The clip received over 1 million views during its first week.

"There were definitely a lot of calls and opportunities that seemed like they were door openers," Holliday explained, "but, seeing as I'm still working as a cashier, 'The Voice' could give me a real professional career."

After securing a spot on Team Jennifer, Holliday was joined on stage by Hudson and together they sang a snippet of Hillsong Worship's "God is Able."

"Singing with Jennifer Hudson is amazing," Holliday said. "This is an Oscar winner singing with me."

"I don't think I've ever been this excited" Hudson said, adding that "(Lucas) is everything that a show called 'The Voice' represents."